Defending champion Hyundai Capital to sign partnership with prestigious team to conduct off-season training in Nagoya in October
Sep 01, 2025
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During the training camp, Hyundai Capital will conduct joint training and friendly matches with Wolfdogs Nagoya, a prestigious club in the SV League of Japan. There will be a total of two friendly matches, the first on Oct. 9 and the second on Oct. 11 at the Nagoya Entrio Gymnasium in Japan.(The match will be held as a paid spectator match, and TV and YouTube broadcasts will not be provided.)
Wolffdox Nagoya, which has won two Japanese V-League titles in the past, has been led by Italian coach Valerio Baldovin since 2022, and is a prestigious Japanese club that ranked third in the regular league and fourth in the playoffs in the last 2024-25 season. The Wolf Dogs recruited Apogit Spiker Miyaura Kento, who is active in the Japanese national team, to strengthen his power in the 2025-26 season, and three new foreign players, Hoover (MB, Poland), Karl (OH, France), and Bugera (OH, Tunisia/France), who are recognized for their high skills worldwide.
A club official said, `The off-season training schedule was adjusted to match when Heo Soo-bong (OH), Park Kyung-min (L), and Shin Ho-jin (OP), who could not join the national team during the off-season, could join after the World Championship in late September"Through this training camp, all the players of the club will work together, improve their sense of practice and make a final check on their performance in preparation for the 2025-26 season."
In addition, a club official added that "In the future, we will sign a strategic partnership with the prestigious Japanese club, Wolf Dogs Nagoya, to regularize regular friendly matches and conduct various volleyball exchanges ranging from player development to know-how in managing the volleyball team."
Meanwhile, Hyundai Capital achieved the club's first treble by winning the 2024 KOVO Cup, the top regular league in the 2024-25 season, and the championship game in the first year of former Japanese national team coach Philippe Blain from France from the 2024-2025 season. Huh Soo-bong (OH), Park Kyung-min (L), Choi Min-ho (MB), Hwang Seung-bin (S), and Leo (OH, Cuba) are representatives of the Hyundai Capital Skywalkers Volleyball Team, and Bayarsaihan (OP, Mongolia) newly joined the team through Shin Ho-jin (OP) and Asia Quarter this year.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
